20 Best historical books like The Magnificent Esme Wells by Adrienne Sharp

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The Magnificent Esme Wells

By: Adrienne Sharp

3.42

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historica…

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1. The Life Intended

By: Kristin Harmel

4.12

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

From the author of the international bestseller The Sweetness of Forgetting, named one of the Best … read more

Similar categories in Kristin Harmel's The Life Intended book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The thing is, not every happily ever after needs to end with a Prince Charming"

-Kristin Harmel, The Life Intended

"It's not the life I planned, but somehow, it's the life I was intended to have. And now, finally, I'm ready to embrace it."

-Kristin Harmel, The Life Intended

"You know, I truly believe adoption is one of the greatest unheralded blessings in the world," she continues, her expression turning earnest. "Think how beautiful it is to give a child a home and to b…"

-Kristin Harmel, The Life Intended

Cover of Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4) by Kate Atkinson

2. Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

By: Kate Atkinson

3.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Tracy, a retired police detective, rescues a small child; Jackson Brodie, a detective, rescues an a… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4) book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. As Time Goes By

By: Mary Higgins Clark

4.11

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER In this exciting thriller from Mary Higgins Clark, the #1 New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Mary Higgins Clark's As Time Goes By book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • fiction
  • audiobook

4. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

By: Katherine Howe

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most… read more

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5. Playmates (Spenser, #16)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.50

Format: 168 pages,

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6. Two Steps Forward

By: Graeme Simsion

3.73

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project comes a story of taking chances and… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I learned that it is important to know not only what to hold on to and what to let go of, but what to go back for."

-Graeme Simsion, Two Steps Forward

"I had begun to realise how much I'd adapted to Keith's needs and preferences. Just small stuff: what time we went to bed, which side I slept on, not cooking cauliflower. Allowances and adaptions anyo…"

-Graeme Simsion, Two Steps Forward

"I had no idea what they sang. I guessed it was all in Latin, but some words could have been French. I didn't need to understand the words to have them touch me. I don't know whether it was the acoust…"

-Graeme Simsion, Two Steps Forward

Cover of Murder at the Serpentine Bridge (Wrexford & Sloane, #6) by Andrea Penrose

7. Murder at the Serpentine Bridge (Wrexford & Sloane, #6)

By: Andrea Penrose

4.19

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

Charlotte, now the Countess of Wrexford, would like nothing more than a summer of peace and quiet w… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Penrose's Murder at the Serpentine Bridge (Wrexford & Sloane, #6) book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Murder at Kensington Palace (Wrexford & Sloane, #3) by Andrea Penrose

8. Murder at Kensington Palace (Wrexford & Sloane, #3)

By: Andrea Penrose

4.15

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Wrexford and Sloane must unravel secrets within secrets—including a few that entangle their own hea… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Penrose's Murder at Kensington Palace (Wrexford & Sloane, #3) book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. The Grammarians

By: Cathleen Schine

3.58

Format: 8 pages, Audio CD

"The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an … read more

Similar categories in Cathleen Schine's The Grammarians book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The word is "love," the story tells her, but she says No, that is nonsense. "Love" is a four-letter word, the story says, but Sally says, No, you are missing the point. There is no word, just words, …"

-Cathleen Schine, The Grammarians

"His point is, informal English is not wrong, and some of it stems from models older than 'standard' English, and he always puts 'standard' in quotes because there is no standard English, language kee…"

-Cathleen Schine, The Grammarians

"There were not words for what she felt, the depth of the emptiness, the breadth of the emptiness, the emptiness of the emptiness. Words could only cloak what she felt. Words were supposed to illumina…"

-Cathleen Schine, The Grammarians

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10. The Social Graces

By: Renée Rosen

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The author of Park Avenue Summer throws back the curtain on one of the most remarkable feuds in his… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle

11. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

By: Erin Kimmerle

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st… read more

Similar categories in Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • historical
  • audiobook
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12. An Indiscreet Princess

By: Georgie Blalock

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl and The Last Debutantes comes a brilliant novel… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. A Stitch in Time (A Stitch in Time, #1)

By: Kelley Armstrong

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Thorne Manor has always been haunted… and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bron… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Enigma!" I call, adding a "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty!" because obviously it's the universal language for feline summoning. And maybe it is -- no sooner do I croon that magic phrase than I hear an ans…"

-Kelley Armstrong, A Stitch in Time (A Stitch in Time, #1)

"Don't dwell on what isn't here. Dwell on what is. A perfumed breeze, hot tea, rich biscuits, a warm blanket, a purring kitten. And me. That last is the hardest. Focus on being in the moment with myse…"

-Kelley Armstrong, A Stitch in Time (A Stitch in Time, #1)

"After that, my life paused. Or, more accurately, I paused. I stood at the tracks, watching the train whip past. At first, I didn't care. When I finally did, I couldn't figure out what to do about it.…"

-Kelley Armstrong, A Stitch in Time (A Stitch in Time, #1)

Cover of A Twist of Fate (A Stitch in Time, #2) by Kelley Armstrong

14. A Twist of Fate (A Stitch in Time, #2)

By: Kelley Armstrong

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Four years ago, Rosalind Courtenay stumbled from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, where … read more

Similar categories in Kelley Armstrong's A Twist of Fate (A Stitch in Time, #2) book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Picasso's Lovers

By: Jeanne Mackin

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A tangled and vividly intimate portrait of the women caught in Picasso’s charismatic orbit through … read more

Similar categories in Jeanne Mackin's Picasso's Lovers book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Royal Governess (Royal Outsiders, #1) by Wendy  Holden

16. The Royal Governess (Royal Outsiders, #1)

By: Wendy Holden

3.77

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

Sunday Times bestselling author Wendy Holden brings to life the unknown childhood years of one of t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Queen Mary’s bosom was invariably stiff with diamonds. It would have been like weeping on a gravel drive."

-Wendy Holden, The Royal Governess (Royal Outsiders, #1)

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17. After Dark with Roxie Clark

By: Brooke Lauren Davis

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Hollow Inside comes a twisty, thought-provoking YA thriller about grief, fam… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Lauren Davis's After Dark with Roxie Clark book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Sunset Crowd

By: Karin Tanabe

3.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Rodeo Drive to the French Riviera, Karin Tanabe's The Sunset Crowd is a tale of survival and r… read more

Similar categories in Karin Tanabe's The Sunset Crowd book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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19. A Woman of Intelligence

By: Karin Tanabe

3.59

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A Fifth Avenue address, parties at the Plaza, two healthy sons, and the ideal husband: what looks l… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. French Exit

By: Patrick deWitt

3.55

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow an… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Oh, to be youngish and in love-ish!"

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

"I've been neither lucky nor unlucky. I've been luckless - such a bore"

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

"She studied her son with a melancholic endearment. “Did you drink to the brink of sound reasoning?"

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

"She knew she was living improperly but hadn’t the strength to correct herself. She had twenty thousand euros left; she’d taken to flushing hundreds down the toilet each morning."

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

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21. The Royal Librarian

By: Daisy Wood

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations… Windsor, 1940: Sec… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The room smelt exactly as a library should: of old paper, leather and sweet, sticky glue, overlaid with furniture polish and the smoke from a thousand dead fires."

-Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

"She loved the calm regularity of librarianship; each book a treasure trove of information or experience that would be categorised, labelled and stored in its rightful place. And she could think of no…"

-Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

"Most walls of the family's apartment were lined with bookshelves, and more volumes were stacked in boxes under every bed and table. Her mother often threatened to throw them out with the rubbish, and…"

-Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

Cover of Feared (Rosato & DiNunzio, #6) by Lisa Scottoline

22. Feared (Rosato & DiNunzio, #6)

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.99

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

In the new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline, Mary DiNunzio’s ruthles… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Mary had been raised in a family where blood was as thick as tomato sauce."

-Lisa Scottoline, Feared (Rosato & DiNunzio, #6)

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23. A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter

By: Clare McHugh

3.71

Format: 470 pages, Paperback

To the world, she was Princess Victoria, daughter of a queen, wife of an emperor, and mother of Kai… read more

Similar categories in Clare McHugh's A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. The Princess (Royal Outsiders, #3)

By: Wendy Holden

3.77

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Princess Diana was the most famous woman in the world, celebrated across the globe for her poise an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"And Charles can keep Camilla in his cupboard,"

-Wendy Holden, The Princess (Royal Outsiders, #3)

"That’s what I want more than anything, Sandy. To fall in love and become a part of someone forever."

-Wendy Holden, The Princess (Royal Outsiders, #3)

"All she had wanted was for the man of her dreams to return her love. And of all that had happened in her epic, extraordinary life, that was the one simple thing that never had."

-Wendy Holden, The Princess (Royal Outsiders, #3)

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25. Familiaris

By: David Wroblewski

4.21

Format: 979 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtel… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Suppose you could do one impossible thing."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"Time is a snake-oil remedy if you ask me. Some wounds just keep hurting as bad as they ever did. That's what I think."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"John once claimed that the way to convince a person to do something outlandish was to ask them to do something even more outlandish."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"You can never watch too many pups climb through the straw for the first time, but there are just so many dogs you can bear watch to die."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

Cover of The Light of Luna Park by Addison Armstrong

26. The Light of Luna Park

By: Addison Armstrong

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In the spirit of The Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours, a historical debut about a nurse who ch… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Varina Palladino's Jersey Italian Love Story by Terri-Lynne DeFino

27. Varina Palladino's Jersey Italian Love Story

By: Terri-Lynne DeFino

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“Varina Palladino’s Jersey Italian Love Story is fun and funny, wonderfully exuberant, and incredi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Things Past Telling by Sheila    Williams

28. Things Past Telling

By: Sheila Williams

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The author of The Secret Woman tells the story of a brave and enduring woman as indomitable as Erne… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Williams's Things Past Telling book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum

29. A Bend in the Stars

By: Rachel Barenbaum

3.90

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is at once an epic love story and a heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about an amb… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"[...] survivors like that, well, they understood better than anyone how to get back on their feet."

-Rachel Barenbaum, A Bend in the Stars

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30. The Last Twelve Miles

By: Erika Robuck

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Two real, brilliant women on opposite sides of the law, in a deadly game of cat and mouse… 1926.… read more

Similar categories in Erika Robuck's The Last Twelve Miles book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Elizabeth’s heart feels a pang of jealousy, followed by a burst of love at seeing her happy family. It’s both freeing and agonizing not to be needed. That is the nature of motherhood, she thinks"

-Erika Robuck, The Last Twelve Miles

Cover of The Magnificent Esme Wells by Adrienne Sharp

31. The Magnificent Esme Wells

By: Adrienne Sharp

3.42

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historica… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells book and Adrienne Sharp's The Magnificent Esme Wells

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook

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Kristin Harmel

4.12

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Kate Atkinson

3.79

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Mary Higgins Clark

4.11

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Graeme Simsion

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